Prof. Dr. Timo Baumann, Diplom-Informatiker
Professor in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing at the Faculty for Informatics and Mathematics at OTH Regensburg.
I research spoken language, in particular in interactive and multi-modal scenarios, such as in spoken dialogue systems. My particular interests lie in responsiveness in interaction and I have been one of the main drivers of incremental spoken dialogue systems. Beyond that, I create and use corpora of spoken language, such as the Spoken Wikipedia Corpus. I like difficult problems, which is why I work on prosody, and even prosody of post-modern poetry, and more recently multi-modal lip-synchronous dubbing. Feel free to have a look at my recent projects.
Recent News:
- 2025-11: Our project on efficient dynamic tokens that allow adaptive language generation with transformer decoders is being funded in the KONWIHR network. Congrats, Diana!
- 2025-10: Our paper on "Rhythmicalizer: tens years on" has been accepted at DHd. Congrats, Felix!
- 2025-09: The Speinshart Meeting on Bavarian NLP was great. Let's see if it merits more positive news in the future.
- 2025-08: Our evaluation of the CodeClinic in CS education has been accepted for MINTSymposium. Thanks, Kai and Martin!
- 2025-06: Alessandra and I ran the first Workshop on NLP Didactics at Bavarian Universities of Applied Sciences. We thank all colleagues for participating in the exchange!
- 2025-04: Our work on estimating the added value of longer recordings in rat brains has been accepted to EMBC. Congrats, Ali!
- 2024-12: Two new papers: Sara's work on aphasic speech (and dialog training) has been accepted for ESSV and Diana's work on length-controlled LLM decoding has been accepted there as well but will be presented at the ISCA/ITG Workshop on Diversity in Large Speech and Language Models. Congrats to both of you!!
- older news
To reach me, try:
- mail: timo.baumannÄŦoth-regensburg.de
- skype: timobaumann
- snail mail:
OTH Regensburg, Fakultät für Informatik und Mathematik
Prof. Dr. Timo Baumann
Seybothstraße 2
93053 Regensburg
- office: K122
- consultation hours: Tu 13-14; please make an appointment here or by e-mail (see above)
I occasionally do speech science and technology consulting. Feel free to contact me at mailÄŦtimobaumann.de .
Former appointments:
Acting professor for machine learning at the Department of Informatics at Universität Hamburg, Systems Scientist at the Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University; researcher and instructor in speech processing at Universität Hamburg (LT and NatS); research assistant at Bielefeld and Potsdam Universities before that. Various short-term appointments and free-lancing work with industry partners.